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Victorian History and Biographies
Read reviews and buy books written by Victorian authors or about the Victorian era and more... Click a book cover or title for more information. Links are in purple. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the Amazon links at the bottom of the page.
| George Eliot: the Last Victorian By Kathryn Hughes Price: £7.19 "Kathryn Hughes' excellent new biography of the woman who became one of the most appealing of Victorian sages has, at its heart, a sense of just how scandalous George Eliot was in her day and how much courage and nervous energy she had to expend in living a life by her own rules. Hughes suggests, convincingly, that this energy is heavily paralleled in the virtue shared by her most attractive central characters, a capacity to endure and stand by righteousness. " -Roz Kaveney for amazon.co.uk |
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| The Victorian Internet
By Tom Standage Price: £5.59 "Tom Standage tells the story of the spread of the telegraph and its transformation of the Victorian world. The telegraph was greeted with the same concerns, hype, social panic and excitement that now surround the Internet, and Standage provides an insight into the past and a context in which to think differently about today's... " |
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| The Victorian Underworld By Donald Thomas Price: £10.39 "Through the eyes of its inhabitants, this work portrays the 19th-century underworld, a place of "night houses" and cigar divans, of street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire-King. It looks at the criminals, growth of prostitution and prisons." |
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| The Victorian Woman By Suzanne Fagence Cooper Price: £7.96 "This colourful book explodes the myth of the passive Victorian woman, and demonstrates how women rose to the challenges of the age of empire and industry. Drawing on the new Victorian medium of photography, as well as the huge range of images from advertising and magazines, it creates a fascinating picture of the diversity of women's achievements at this time. Queen Victoria herself had a profound impact on her female subjects. She strongly influenced their attitudes to marriage, motherhood and bereavement, as she shared these experiences with many of her countrywomen." |
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| Victorian Diaries Heather Creaton (Editor) Price: £11.99 "A collection of ordinary diary entries from a cross section of classes and lifestyles showing the essentials of the Victorians' daily reality: their family concerns, medical conditions and education. Included in the book are entries from an actor, a schoolboy, a Countess and an engraver. " |
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